***This was always going to be a crummy cover and surely enough it is. I would say that these Cheat Codes "people" should just write their own songs, however nobody is listening so Silento on repeat so that would obviously not go well. Also I'd rather they go away than keep trying.

**I first came across Cheat Codes in December of last year and I really enjoyed the track in question. The last 6 months have had me severely disappointed, with them scoring two ARIA chart hits that I have not enjoyed. "Sex" is pretty vile so it was unlikely this was going to be worse, and it's an improvement. But covering a song I can kinda enjoy but not quite enjoy and retaining one of the elements that prevents me from doing that is a big no. The vocals on the original do hinder my liking of it, but the ones here are even worse. The vocalist here is so dull and lifeless it really ruins any potential of me thinking much of this. Which is a shame because that's a cool enough beat. A more lively remix could make this far more enjoyable in the right context, but otherwise I'll pass.

Given the way of their previous single, when this came out, I refused to listen to any more than 29 seconds of it, because I didn't want to feed into lazy Spotify stats that I knew it would inevitably get. I mean, this has been listened to some 200 million times on Spotify alone, that's the hierarchy we get in a world where people cannot freely listen to Beyonce.

The thing is that "Turn Me On" is always a song I hear high praises of as a throwback to its time, and it's something I can appreciate but I just cannot get past Kevin Lyttle's weedy voice that feels out of place on it. Cheat Codes put a bit more energy into it, but the tone of his voice just doesn't sit right with me.

So lo and behold but what ends up salvaging this track for me is the tropical elements, with the pan flute breakdown feeling at least a little more inspired than the usual affair. Given that it's already a dancehall song, it's not much of a jarring shift to update it to a modern audience. I mean it's still cynical, lazy & indicative of the worst of modern music trends, but it has enough of a rush to it that I don't find it boring, so there's that.